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ITNews has an article on Telstra’s improved capability to supply IPv6 addressing on devices on their mobile network – not revolutionary, but interesting because it demonstrates that they are genuinely seeking to move through to IPv6 and also putting material into the marketplace which is semi-technical and informative in nature. The IP address IPv4-IPv6 crisis was raised decades ago as a potential problem, and as a career techie I watch with interest when these things bubble to the surface in the general media.

As first spotted by CommsDay, the incumbent last month said it would introduce dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on the Telstra.WAP and Telstra.Internet access point names from September.

Each device will be allocated a dynamic /64 IPv6 prefix, with access to the next-gen addressing scheme on Telstra’s network requiring further configuration on user devices.

Groovy. I like that. Many many folk bash Telstra, however if they do more network work, and communicate more about what the plans are and when they’re being deployed it will go a long way (for me) to gain faith in their wider capability as a premier telco vendor. Talking more about the technical issues and then extrapolating what that might mean to end users is useful – and for customers this means that the Telstra network will have breadth to meet addressing demand in the future. Internet-of-Things (IoT) is pushed in the hype cycle in universities, private companies, and the media – this means their mobile network should be “IoT Ready” (my words, not theirs though).

Something positive, lets get more of it.

…Disclaimer: these views are my own, of questionable accuracy, may be improved caffeine, may change with time, and are not representative of Telstra (duh), my employer (duh), my family, or anyone else…